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Hawaiian Air has fullest planes

Hawaiian Airlines planes filled lots of seats last month, logging an 84.8 percent load factor, the highest of all 29 airlines in the United States that report such figures.

Hawaiian's load factor jumped by 10.5 percentage points from 74.3 percent in May 2003.

The airline's total revenue passenger miles -- measuring one paying passenger carried one mile -- rose 14.5 percent and passenger numbers increased 5.4 percent compared to year-before levels.

JetBlue came in second with a load factor below 82 percent. Northwest, 80.7 percent, and United, 80.1 percent, came in third and fourth respectively.

A&B declares quarterly dividend

The board of Alexander & Baldwin Inc. announced that its third-quarter dividend remained unchanged at 22.5 cents per share.

The dividend is payable on Sept. 2 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Aug. 5.